User talk:Gaogier
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I would help as i do know but i'm actually banned right now, if i manage to appeal that then i will help, sorry hopefully i will be back on wikipedia soon.Gaogier Chat! 10:40, 17 April 2008 (UTC)
Your Block Case
Hey Gaogier. I've decided that I'm going to try and help you get unblocked. As you said yourself, you say that you feel like 'a bandit' around here, and you sound like you're sorry for what happened in the first place. Anyway, let's start by going over the situation. (lol I'm going to set this up like one of my assessments).
According to your block log, you were blocked for this reason by VirtualSteve:
- (Abusing sock puppet accounts: Please see block notice for evidence links that this editor is usurping other accounts; maliciously redirecting FA redirects; and removing user page content using other sock IPs)
Okay, well, first off, we'll address the sock puppet issue. Starting with the IP's, obviously you forgot to log in. It's not unusual for someone to have multiple IP's, I have one that's 149. something here at college and one that's 72. something at my home in Fort Wayne. It might be helpful, though, if you can catch yourself after you sign it under an IP address, and just mention that that person is you. It's a good idea to manually sign all your posts. Just tell the admin that you're sorry about that.
As for the usurping other accounts, this is probably the most damaging bit. What did you do? I remember reading something about you and Chicken7. I really can't help you with this one since I don't know what happened.
As for your dispute with Doktor Wilhelm that led up to the block, you can use some of his comments that he left me here. You also apologized to that the first time, I saw, and you did recognize what you did wrong. You might also help your case by telling the admin that you now recognize that a situation like this is something to take to dispute resolution.
For the FA redirects, well, I saw the General Sherman redirect, and yeah, you probably shouldn't have done that one. But let's be realistic here, is it really that malicious? Granted, it's not exactly a good redirect, but it's not like you redirected something absolutely ridiculous. Tell the admin you made a misjudgment, and a tip for the future: people are sensitive about redirecting away from an FA since FA's are supposed to be Wikipedia's best articles.
Anyway, basically you're going to really have to apologize to the admin, tell them you know what you did was wrong (for all four cases, don't try to defend yourself unless you didn't do one of them), and show them you know what the right thing to do is. That's the best I can give you for now, feel free to send me something on my talk page if you've got comments. Red Phoenix flame of life...protector of all... 18:30, 17 April 2008 (UTC)
